Judicial activism is pushing America to the breaking point. This week, a federal judge blocked key provisions of Arizona's immigration law, thwarting the will of the people. The decision was ominous and will reverberate for years to come.

Judge Susan Bolton, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, is a liberal elitist who believes judicial imperialism trumps democracy. Her ruling states that local police cannot check the immigration status of people arrested or stopped for violations of the law. In her view, that would amount to an abuse of civil liberties and unduly burden the federal immigration system. She also stipulated that residents cannot be required to carry proof of legal status.

"So, we have a Justice Department that drops a case it already won against New Black Panthers who are on tape intimidating voters in blatant violation of federal law, but that sues a sovereign state for enacting a statute in support of immigration enforcement practices that have already been upheld by two of the nations highest courts. Perfect."

Standing in opposition to those who would run our ever-changing Democracy (for that is what we have become) are those that would conserve the ideals of a truly unique way of life, a Republic, a Representative Republic, such as the one envisioned by the founders of these United States.

Many aspects of our social, and religious-based beliefs and established mores, our basic economic freedoms may possibly induce so much passion on both sides we might end up fighting each other over which path is the one to take...and we will both claim an absolute moral imperative that we will each consider unimpeachable and without doubt the most fundamental cause...the struggle, of course, will be between those that would impose enslavement to a Marxist collective, that see it as an urgent mission that cannot be put off any longer. We have seen the growing cry for socialism in the country brings us to the point where it simply cannot be ignored.

Slave or free?

Socialists will never forgo their dream of the REAL, complete and total solution in which they so fervently believe because some of us believe that the REAL path to freedom is to pursue our destiny as a republic.

I hope this will not amount to anything but a clash between opposing forces of voters, but it seems like so much more and it seems explosive. It is too deep a disagreement, too fundamentally rooted in our belief in a way of life that we each so totally commit to.

I wonder how third Manassas will turn out?

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posted on 07/29/2010 6:39:44 PM PDT
by jessduntno
(Each day, I await a fresh insult to America by this usurper...he never fails to deliver.)

Should Arizona secede? Thats what the anti president would consider a success, the defrocking of America a state at a time. Kinda slow, kinda painful but as Obama maintains, there is more than one way to skin a cat. Just don’t expect the cat to cooperate!

Agreed. The issue is eventually going to boil into States vs. Federal Government...and my from persepctive, given that some aspects of the Federal Government’s power stems for those powers granted and given by the States, I can foresee some to many States eventually looking to put a serious dent in those granted and given powers.

I’m all for state secession. This is what the Founding Fathers intended. Sadly all secessionist dreams were lost after Lincoln. By the looks of it the only solution to preserve its sovereignty would be for Arizona to secede. A secessionist movement is already active in New Hampshire.

Nope, first exhaust all legal avenues. Bonehead, partisan decisions like this one come down all the time. I think in the end, even if it has to go as far as the Supreme Court, they will prevail. Never relent.

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posted on 07/29/2010 6:43:01 PM PDT
by xuberalles
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The Federal government has now solidified my thoughts that it is broken and no longer in need of repair but replacement. Do you think that this is the final proof needed to say that it no longer works ? I do....

When judges simply say that enforcement is best left to the federal branch and that the state level should walk away, that my friends is tyranny. We have it, we now have an obligation to abolish it and reestablish the Republic.

Naw... that would be way too radical. The solution is soooo easy. What the Governor needs to do is just simply tell Idiot O that Starting August 1st, all federal tax remittances from Arizona will be made to the Governors office... and held in Escrow... until Washington wishes to start speaking English with some element of sense. I do know that this so called president and congress understand money.

Secede, a big step, I hope other States would follow suit but there are a lot of big talkers and little doers. I don't think any of are sure what will happen but one thing is for sure, Our country is rapidly changing and I do not think for the better. I can see a revolution in our future within the forseeable future. Are we ready for that, are we ready to stand your ground and not back down, it could get nasty.

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posted on 07/29/2010 6:48:01 PM PDT
by JamesA
(You don't have to be big to stand tall)

In the Jewish prayer book one of the blessings in the Shemoneh Esrei (The 18 Blessings) is called Birkat HaDin - the blessing of the restoration of justice. It says the following translated into English.

“Restore our judges as at the early times, and counselors as there once were. Remove our sorrows and troubles: we want You, Lord, to rule over us with kindness and compassion and to justify us in justice. Blessed are You, Lord, the King Who loves righteousness and justice.”

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posted on 07/29/2010 6:51:13 PM PDT
by Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)

I think simple defiance would be more effective. This would leave the next move up to the feds, who would find themselves mobilizing to arrest and prosecute state officials for illegally enforcing federal law. Anyway you look at it, this thing is going to build.

In Shiloh, north of Beit El, excavations are currently being carried out under the auspices of the Archaeological Staff Officer for Judea and Samaria in the IDF Civilian Administration Antiquities Unit and the Binyamin local authority.

Shiloh was where the Holy Sanctuary  precursor to the Holy Temple  stood for about 400 years during the era of the Judges.

It is first mentioned in the Book of Joshua, which also states that the Holy Sanctuary was built there. In the Book of Samuel, Shiloh is mentioned as a religious center, where Elkana and his family go to give sacrifices to G-d. During that pilgrimage, Elkana’s wife, Hana, asks G-d to give her a son  and eventually gives birth to Samuel the Prophet.

Shiloh is believed by researchers to have fallen into ruin after the Israelites’ unsuccessful war with the Philistines, in which the enemy took the Holy Ark captive. The Ark was soon returned to Israel, but was never brought back to Shiloh. Instead, it was taken to Kiryat Yearim until King David had it delivered to Jerusalem.

Archaeological findings indicate that a Jewish presence continued at Shiloh until the year 722 BCE, when the Kingdom of Israel was defeated by Assyria. According to the Book of Judges and the Mishna, unwed Jewish women traditionally went to the vineyards of Shiloh to dance on Tu B’Av.

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posted on 07/29/2010 6:57:18 PM PDT
by Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)

“He will try to be Lincoln and call on Americans to kill their former brothers. The question is how many will answer his call?”

It is ironic that this country would experience an explosive and precipitous Federal Usurpation spearheaded by a tall lanky fellow from IL who seems determined to exploit every crisis and expand the rift in the country that has become more and more charged - into two completely divided camps and that he will do whatever it takes to impose the will of the mostly northern liberal-leaning states on the mostly southern and western conservative states.

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posted on 07/29/2010 6:58:02 PM PDT
by jessduntno
(Each day, I await a fresh insult to America by this usurper...he never fails to deliver.)

Arizona should just ignore the ruling. The Governor should tell the Judge, “You made your ruling/injunction now how will you enforce it?” What’s Obama gonna do? Arrest the Governor? Call in the Military? Good luck with that.

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